Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-12
THE ARABS HORSE.

Ne Great Love which Eastern People
Entertain for the Noble Animal.
+ In the East the horse is far moro
fecions possession than it h with rs. 1
= not speaking, however, Of its money
&lue, but Of the love the Eastern poo
3 entertain for the animal. The praises
tlich an Arab lavishes on his horse are
bnuine and from the heart. contrast
8every way to the perfunctory eulo-
INNS which home lover Of the horse
h horse dealer pronounces on his
|arcs. Proof of this will be found in
q Romance Of Auar,n with reference
Jirwet, Shedad's mare, paragon,
Mt could not be matched, horse that
Is priceless even to the bid of Kings.
eek not to purchase Jirwet." said
Iedad, s'for Jirwct will never be sold;
= not to borrow her, for Jirwet can
be lent-no, not il were offered
Ings Of camels in return and ON their
ks loads of merchandise. Jirwet can
without wings, and she tears up the
us Of the desert; in her bound along
earth she is a living glory. and she
u
with of her own flesh. f" Other still
ne romantic stories and sayings are
nnt OF the love Of the Arab for his
Use. Some who have sold favorite
I'd for a great sum have given even
re money to get it back again. A
ter of "A Summer Ramble in the
&t''--I think that is the title of the
X, butt am not quite sure describes
fondness OF the Arab for his horse
the following words: "A great
Ian was mounted on white mare
great beauty Having asked her
Re, / offered the sum. The Arab said
loved his mare better than his own
that money was of no use to him,
that mounted on her he felt as
asha. Shoes and stockings he had
Ne, and the net value Of the accoutre-
hts and dress might be calculated at
hething less thar seventeen pence
ling" In the East the horse is even
he beloved and protected he is, in a
se, an object of worship as well; at
events, in the African deserts the
ltnal has been even regarded with
h political and religious reverence.
manned helped, from policy. to
ke the horse of the East what he has
rays been up to the present day, an
hammed who instilled in the people
- love for fine women and fast-going
xscs that still exists. The long-hcaded
4 6phet of Mecca decreed the future Of
horse. As Abd-el-Kader observes:
Z he Prophet was SO adroit as to con-
I'VE that horses and hours should be-
me potent instruments Of religion, as
mn as of political ambition. In the
}4ys of paganism they loved the animal
|H1m motives of interest, but when
11hammed praised it so warmly their
21finctive love became also a religious
!"
Tie Arabs, as is well known, enter
I6fn extravagant ideas as to the origin
b heir horses, tracing their genealo-
RIes back to the days of Solomon, a
King of the grand old stamp, who kept
\ Mud of 10000 horses and employed
horsemen. That King Solomon
horses would be we'll looked after is
cartain, because, among many other
fine preeepts to which he gave utterance,
WI finl one wh:,.h tells us that "a
rf&hteous man careth much for his
beast, and Solomon doubtless was one
81 the few wise persons who practice
.&tI< tt,nv =,
lowever, of the descent of the steeds OF
the desert from any of the horses which
had stalls in the stable of the author OF
the proverbs and were fed ON barley. II
was Abd-el-Kader. think, who wrote
an essay to demonstrate that horses
were created before mankind, and that
Allah first made the horse and then the
mare, 'the Divine power always Great
ing the noblest first 1t was doubtless
from Egypt that the Arabs first of al
got their horses; it was from Egypt thai
solomon filed his stalls: "And they
fetched up and brought forth out o
Egypt chariot for 600 shekels of silver
and horse for $50; and SO brough
they out horses for all the Kings of tn,
Hittites and for the Kings of Syrii
BY their means" The Arabs them
SELVES believe their chestnuts to be the
hectest, the bay the most enduring
while the black they know to be tn,
most spirited. A piebald horse no Aral
will look at, and an animal with white
marks on his legs was denounced by the
Prophet, who ordered it to be held il